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Cindy Novak |
July 2010 |
| Caring for the military |
| Across the ELCA, they 'need our support' |
| They'd just buried their 23-year-old son, Damon. Richard and Patricia Winkleman then prepared to attend a funeral for one of his comrades, also killed in Afghanistan. After driving 10
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Paul Lutter |
March 2010 |
| Lament |
| Where two realities collide |
| Several years ago I watched as my wife was admitted to a hospital. It was a scary time for both of us — not knowing how long she would be there and what would happen. As doctors and nurses, fami
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Gunnar Mengers |
February 2010 |
| Wanted: A comforting presence |
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Phyllis Gabriel |
August 2009 |
| Does God send postcards? |
| This week's article — ponderings to a question, actually — comes from Phyllis Gabriel who tells about her experiences of God through reading. Gabriel is a member of Grace Lutheran Chur
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June 2009 |
| Columbine, 10 years later |
| April 20 marked the 10th anniversary of the high school shootings in Columbine, Colo. The tragedy’s aftermath brought grief and change to area congregations “Whenever there’s trauma,
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William R. Matthews |
May 2009 |
| Echoes of Easter |
| This week's article comes from William R. Matthews (wmatt1920@aol.com). He is a writer and retired professor of English at Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, who — at 89 — has
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Robert Schut |
February 2009 |
| Unprepared for suffering |
| We don't know how to handle this challenge to faith |
| During the years that I worked as a counselor on a suicide hot line, I talked with many depressed people. I found an all-too-common theme — suffering. Many callers couldn’t understand what
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Walter Wangerin Jr. |
September 2008 |
| 'The world is not the same' |
| We’d just buried Phyllis’ father. The death had not been sudden. He’d been an elderly gentleman, failing for a while, then dying neither in pain nor in disgrace.Nor had Phyllis broke
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Julie B. Sevig |
August 2008 |
| A year after |
| The 35W bridge collapse, Ron Engebretsen says, 'God continues to be gracious to us' |
| Seated in his tidy living room in Shoreview, Minn., Ron Engebretsen is intensely candid about last Aug. 1 when the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis collapsed—and about his life since. There
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Jeff Favre |
May 2008 |
| A package of care |
| From one letter, a grief ministry takes flight |
| At 11 years old, Anne Brooker didn’t know how to begin helping people grieve, only that it was important to do something. Anne Brooker, 17, offers people a way to express their compass
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